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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2675 in my way against such commerce, and in the further event that a . proclamstnon bg the Presxdent of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the Cxty of Washington, this twenty-ninth dey of March, A. D. one thousan nine hundred and ten, and of the [sum,.] Independence of the United States of America. the one hun red and tlurty-fourth. Wu H Tuw By the President: P C Knox ‘ Secretary of State. BY nm Pxmsmmzrr or rum Unrmn Siryms or Aummm. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it isggovided in the Act of Congress splpglved August p;,'L‘§g&°" V°"°'·“°"“ 5, 1909, entitled “Act To provule revenue, equa dutnes md Swgilgh encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ’ ' p0ses"-— That from and after the thirty-first day of Much, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected md paid on all articles when imported from an; foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the hilipgine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of dut{l prescribed by the schedules and paragm hs of the dutiable list of section one oi t ns Act, and in addition thereto twenty-Eve centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the Eexlited States: Prmnkied, That whenever, after the thirty-first dai of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall e satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the ovemment of any foreign country imposes no terms or restric— tions, either in tie way of tariff rates or {provisions, trade or other rxulatious, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, irectly or indirectlfg upon e igaportation into or the sale in such foreign country of any agriculture , manufactur , or other iroduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United Ststeswr the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or mhibition upon the exyéyrtation of any article to the United States which unduly dllscriminates against the nited States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which xs reciprocal and equivalent, therzgpon and thereafter, uplon proclamation to this effect by the President of the Uni States, all articles w en xmported into the United States, or my of its {possessiom (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), rom such foreign country sha! , except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under Lge tgrrps of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of t is c . Ama Wumnms satkfactoxiy evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Venezue a imposes no terms or restrictions, erther in the way of tanif rates or prowsrons, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or m ang other xnanner, directly or indirectly, upon the xmportatnou mto or the sale in Venezuela of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discnmmute against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Yenezuela. pegs no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon e exportation of any article to the United States whxch undu y dxscrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of Venezuela accords to the agncultural! manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment wluch IS reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tummronm, l, WILLIAM Howmm Tkrr, President of the ,$g*,;¤¤*{*° wgjpgg United _States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the gum vmzuen. aforesmd Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that